NEW WOOL MARKET

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 211, 20 August 1934, Page 10

NEW WOOL MARKET

Yugo-Slavia Possibilities EXPORTS FROM DOMINION The possibility of opening up an export market for New Zealand wool in Yugoslavia was mentioned last week by Mr l>. Roland, of Christchurch. who has returned to the Dominion after a visit of two and a half years to Central Europe, Mr Roland has been commissioned by Yugoslavian wool buyers to purchase New Z.aland wool and oppomiiii and rabbit kins, and h<* believes that there is nd excellent chance of finding a good market for wool from the Dominion in Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia is in itself an agricultural eountrv ami produces a considerable quantity of wool, Iml Mr Roland explained (hat nioq of it v.’is of poor quality, nnd supplier (l f fine, wool wu wanted to mix with it. Last year Yug<’e slavia imported 12,500 bales. GO per emt of whiM came from the British Empire. Mr Roland said be believed that thi- qu: ’ til v could bp very greatly Igpd. \lniosf ap the other nations of ('••iiTi-nl Fluropp cither had quotas re--rictieg the i;iport;ition oi wool, or r’se ibo exchange p<»siti‘ i su-’h that exports to them from Britis.i conn tries were unprofitable. Yugoslavia, on the eoiitrary, had no quotas, and -would \ r<’r her -n-tn.i-f s • I’;:-Gish ni-’fiev.